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I tried to edit 80-page book on paper tape in 1977. It was more than 10 rolls weighing 10 kilos. Finnish Government said NO to such waste.

So I edited it on 8 kilo core memory holding few pages, hoping that the core stays intact overnight.

Final blow was when professor doubted if he can accept thesis written by a computer. Because it was little bit like cheating.



I was still getting this in middle school in 1990, when several teachers refused to accept anything printed from a computer because "the computer wrote it, not you".

Funny that now we live in an age where their complaint might actually be valid.




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